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Question
What does “sic” mean?
No googling.
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It means ‘thus’. So when you see ‘sic’ inserted next to a block of text, it means that the text was originally that way.
Exactly as quoted?
spelling incorrect.
mistakes in the original
I believe it is latin for “thus” as in “thus so, I found it”
Mistakes intended.
Does looking in dictionary.com mean I can’t reply? I didn’t google.
Here’s a puzzle that I would like to see: How do you manipulate the time on the comment post so it appears earlier than comments already posted?
Now if only people learnt how to use it correctly. I’ve seen plenty of examples on blogs where people use it to indicate sarcasm e.g., “The Left are only looking after the interests of the common man (sic).”
Michael, in WordPress (I had told you about this in our mail exchange), you can just edit it from the admin panel. But I don’t think Ravi has done that anywhere, unless you think otherwise.
From the latin word “sicet”- meaning “thus so”. Had read this in the book “Eats shoots and leaves”
I originally thought it meant “said in context”, but now i know, without googling, thus so
Michael, in wordpress, all I have to do is to set the time of the post and the magic of reverse chronological order will handle it. I can also set a future time and the post won’t appear till that time has passed. This last feature, I am guessing is easily available only in WordPress because the pages are dynamically generated. I don’t usually mess around with dates and times. Usually, if posts move up and down, it is because the client I use for blogging – wbloggar – has a bug when editing posts after they are published.
Everyone, sic is Latin for “Thus so” and is used to mean “accurately quoted”. It is used to reassure your readers that you’ve quoted the guy correctly and that spelling mistakes etc. were in the original.
Actually, a good example of non-spelling mistake context where you’d use “sic” is:
Prof Bogus (sic) has a theory called “Survival of the fattest [sic]”
Here, the unfortunate professor really has the name of Bogus and his theory is really called survival of the fattest. Readers are apt to think that you’ve made spelling mistakes, so “sic” is a way of assuring them that you are not.
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It means ‘thus’. So when you see ‘sic’ inserted next to a block of text, it means that the text was originally that way.
Exactly as quoted?
spelling incorrect.
mistakes in the original
I believe it is latin for “thus” as in “thus so, I found it”
Mistakes intended.
Does looking in dictionary.com mean I can’t reply? I didn’t google.
Here’s a puzzle that I would like to see: How do you manipulate the time on the comment post so it appears earlier than comments already posted?
Now if only people learnt how to use it correctly. I’ve seen plenty of examples on blogs where people use it to indicate sarcasm e.g., “The Left are only looking after the interests of the common man (sic).”
Michael, in WordPress (I had told you about this in our mail exchange), you can just edit it from the admin panel. But I don’t think Ravi has done that anywhere, unless you think otherwise.
From the latin word “sicet”- meaning “thus so”. Had read this in the book “Eats shoots and leaves”
I originally thought it meant “said in context”, but now i know, without googling, thus so
Michael, in wordpress, all I have to do is to set the time of the post and the magic of reverse chronological order will handle it. I can also set a future time and the post won’t appear till that time has passed. This last feature, I am guessing is easily available only in WordPress because the pages are dynamically generated. I don’t usually mess around with dates and times. Usually, if posts move up and down, it is because the client I use for blogging – wbloggar – has a bug when editing posts after they are published.
Everyone, sic is Latin for “Thus so” and is used to mean “accurately quoted”. It is used to reassure your readers that you’ve quoted the guy correctly and that spelling mistakes etc. were in the original.
Actually, a good example of non-spelling mistake context where you’d use “sic” is:
Here, the unfortunate professor really has the name of Bogus and his theory is really called survival of the fattest. Readers are apt to think that you’ve made spelling mistakes, so “sic” is a way of assuring them that you are not.